QotD: "The best way for an immigrant to integrate into a new society is to work side by side with local residents. Having a Swedish-style welfare state may make that harder to do."
"Milton Friedman once remarked that it was difficult to combine open borders with a welfare state. I thought about that observation when reading a couple of articles in a recent issue of The Economist... [that suggest] Turkey seems to have done better than Sweden at integrating the immigrants. The best way for an immigrant to integrate into a new society is to work side by side with local residents... Having a Swedish-style welfare state may make that harder to do."
~ Scott Sumner, from his post 'Integrating Immigrants'
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It is unrecognized that sole parent (or shared unemployment) benefits can cause havoc among non-western refugees. Newly-found financial 'freedom' for females can result in male on male (and male on female) domestic violence as a response to ensuing infidelities. No doubt NZ feminists would approve of this 'liberation' but the guys who end up in prison are still bewildered. And we are paying for them. I have nothing against immigrants or refugees. Welcome them. But they must fend for themselves. God knows we do not need more generations of people ruined by welfare.
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